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Savage Enfield

It's still too sloppy and cold to shoot this weekend so I'm looking over the rifles doing some prepping. I pull out the Enfield and notice the fore stock is a little loose. That can't be good. An hour's worth of google-fu on Enfield accuracy and I find I need to check the fit of the stock draws in the receiver. Yep, it's loose, and also cracked where the reinforcing pin is located. Suggested step 1 is soaking it with oil if dry to try to swell it, and that's where I'm at. Got all the furniture soaking in Lemon oil. Mmmm, smells good lol! I think I'll try shimming it with some card stock. I hope there are a few Enfield owners here as I have a few questions about this rifle.

This has been a fun project while watching basketball this morning. Put a piece of card stock behind the rear draw and filed 2 thou off the front trigger guard bolt bushing and the teeter-totter action in the stock is gone. Also got everything cleaned in the trigger group and fresh coat of oil on the wood. This rifle has never looked this good since I bought it lol! This has always been my worst shooting milsurp. I always attributed that to the sewer bore, but I'm hoping a tighter action in the stock will prove that wrong.
The back story on this is I bought it in the mid 90's for $150. There were 2 laying on the table at the LGS. My buddy Ross was there, and had one at the time and said I needed one. Total enabler lol! The other one was a Longbranch with a mirror bore but beat up wood. I see U S Property on this one, and ask a few ?'s, and decided the wood looked good enough to take a chance on the bore. I'm still working on that as today's project will attest to lol!
This rifle has the most stock stamps of any I have. OW, 12 (probably a rack #?), M 9 and W on the pistol grip. Anyone got any clues?

It also has a bunch of metal stamps I know nothing about. A very light (import ?) GENESEO ILL between the muzzle and front sight on the left side. BDF on the chamber ring on the left side. British Defense Force is my guess.
Below the serial # is a B, Springfield Armory, and a J at the bottom. No ideas here.

Ammo for this is varied. Left to right I have,
1. Some factory S&B. I think around 175g FMJ. I bought this when I got the rifle because the guy said it was reloadable. Big mistake. The brass sucks. I can't remember how good it shot, but I'll send all these over the screens for speed and accuracy when I take it out.
2. Some South African marked 7.7 x 56 on the box. I have never shot any of this but heard it was fairly good stuff. I bought this when I picked up my 1911 a long time ago. Was told it was boxer primed/reloadable, but after some web crawling I have my doubts. Anyone out there shoot this stuff?
3. Some mouse fart loads. 118g flat points sized .312 for the cowboy .32-20's over 5g of HP38. Last time I shot these it was more of a shotgun 00Buck pattern than a group lol! Was it the sewer bore, or loose stock? Time will tell. I'm guessing around 900/1000 fps. They go pop instead of bang lol!
4. Some 123g FMJ sized .311 that I was using in my MAK90 reloads over 42g of Accurate 2460. Last I remember this was my best grouping load. I'm guessing around 2600 fps. I'll post before I run them and we can take some bets lol!
5. I picked up 8 boxes of the Prvi 150g SP this fall for the brass. No idea how they run as I haven't shot any yet. I've run some Prvi through my Mosin and it shot real good, and the brass is excellent to load.

Norton, I didn't know SA imported guns for resale, but that appears to be the case here. I thought they just built and sold their own.

Scott, thx for the props. Digital photography is as kind to guns as it is to motorcycles lol! This one has it's share of wear. I forgot to mention it's "mostly" original. Found the square S stamp on all the wood and most parts. What doesn't match is the bolt, magazine, and rear sight. I think the rear sight should have been the double aperture folder like the early .30 Carbines, but this one has the flip up ladder style like the early 03's. It's marked B which I think is BSA. Probable changed across the pond. BTW, nice SC 03 you picked up! If you're going to reload for it post up your progress. My buddy Mark is working on loads for his Rock Island.

biffj, it has a 2 groove barrel which I suspect has "generous" dimensions lol! I need to slug it. I picked up a box of 167g coated FP bullets that Missouri Bullet Co. sells for Mosin's sized .3115 for the next loading experiment. Going to try them over 16g of 2400 first. It's serial # starts 83C so it's one of the last batch made, probably June/July 44. Does yours have the ladder rear sight? Got any pics?